Research Handbook on Political Representation

Edited by Maurizio Cotta, Emeritus Professor of Political Science, Department of Social, Political and Cognitive Sciences, University of Siena and Federico Russo, Associate Professor, University of Salento, Italy

• Contents:General introduction to the Research Handbook on Political Representation xiiMaurizio Cotta and Federico RussoSECTION I CONCEPTUAL AND THEORETICAL DISCUSSIONS1 Political representation: concepts, theories and practices in historicalperspective 3Federico Russo and Maurizio Cotta2 The system of democratic representation and its normative principles 16Dario Castiglione3 Democracy and representation 36Mark B. Brown4 Policy responsiveness and democratic quality 48Leonardo Morlino5 Legitimacy and hegemony: two accounts of non-electoral representation 58Eline Severs6 Challenges to political representation: participatory democracy, directdemocracy and populism 70Simon TormeySECTION II HISTORICAL AND CONTEMPORARY MODELS OFPOLITICAL REPRESENTATION7 From estate representation to the representation of the people and thenation in the Age of Revolutions 84Pasi Ihalainen and Zachris Haaparinne8 Individualistic representation in the liberal century – and beyond 98Heinrich Best and Lars Vogel9 Party-based representation: the paradox of democracy 109Ian Budge10 Corporatism and representation 121Alan Siaroff11 Technocratic representation 135Daniele Caramani12 Representation in authoritarian regimes 148Maurizio CottaSECTION III THE INSTITUTIONAL ASPECTS OF REPRESENTATION13 Electoral systems and representation 161Alessandro Chiaramonte14 Territorial and multilevel representation 171Lori Thorlakson15 Local jurisdiction size and political representation 183Bas Denters16 Electoral quotas and group representation 198Mona Lena Krook17 The political representation of women: a feminist institutionalist perspective 210Joni Lovenduski18 Ethnic minorities and representation 222Miriam Hänni and Thomas SaalfeldSECTION IV REPRESENTATION AT WORK: OUTPUTS AND OUTCOMES19 Types of democratic representative 239Luca Verzichelli20 Selecting representatives: methods and practices 253Marco Lisi21 Constituency service: incentives and consequences 266Zsófia Papp22 Measuring representation: policy congruence 276Tom Louwerse and Rudy B. Andeweg23 The fulfilment of election pledges 289Elin Naurin and Robert Thomson24 Interest groups and political representation 301Laura Chaqués Bonafont25 Responsiveness, the dynamic aspect of representation 314Federico Russo26 What to expect when you are expecting: preferences for representationamong voters and political elites 326Hanna Wass and Miroslav Nemčok27 Representation and deliberation 338Jürg SteinerIndex

‘This edited volume is empirically and especially theoretically rich and illuminates the fascinating ongoing research on political representation. Important and valuable, this splendid book will be a cornerstone of the scholarship regarding political representation for years to come.’